Three Beautiful Things 09/21/20: Slow Day on Purpose, Big Squash, Dizzy Gillespie BONUS: A Limerick by Stu

 1. Predictably, after I spent much of the weekend preparing food and cleaning house for Sunday's expanded family dinner, today I spent much of the day resting, completing a handful of acrostic puzzles. I fell asleep during the Billy Collins poetry broadcast and will give it a second go in the morning. 

2. At one point, I did wander out to the squash patch in the northeast corner of the yard and harvested two squash (I think Debbie said they are hubbards), both about the size of a medicine ball.

3. Late this evening, I found a short documentary film (about 25 minutes) of Dizzy Gillespie. The film alternated between passages of Gillespie performing in California with a quintet and talking with the filmmaker, Les Blank, about his musical ideas and the origins of the sounds and rhythms of bebop. 

Here's a limerick by Stu: 

Looking back, ask if you were “agin” it? 

Short shorts, that’s how you must spin it. 

Made of nylon not cotton, 

If worn ne’er be forgotten. 

Maybe worse if you were the ones in it. 

Basketball shorts prior to 1991 Michigan Men’s Basketball Team (Fab Five).